Beijing seafood dealers shocked by total Japan import ban

They can import seafood from Norway,Russia, Canada,Chile or Argentina as replacement. The Salmon sashimi I eaten mostly from Norway.

Prior to this blanket ban, China banned seafood from these 10 prefectures with those in bold being completely landlocked: Tokyo, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama.

Does this sound like a country being logical?

This blanket ban is just more of China trying to hurt Japanese commerce under any pretenses.

They can import seafood from Norway,Russia, Canada,Chile or Argentina as replacement. The Salmon sashimi I eaten mostly from Norway.

Like people always say* *"there are plenty fishes on the sea" and not necessarily from Japan. Japanese govt and the operator of that power plant already shutdown.

China, Hongkong and South Korea count for the majority of Japanese fisheries export, Japan can say good bye now.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade/China-s-import-ban-hurts-Japan-s-seafood-industry-expansion-plans

Fish dealers at a Beijing market appear shocked after China banned all seafood imports from Japan in response to its release of treated radioactive water

I can see this "ban" not lasting long.

This blanket ban is just more of China trying to hurt Japanese commerce under any pretenses.

China doesn't contribute to the fail of Fukushima power plant, China doesn't instruct Japan to pollute the pacific. All done by Japan.

China is simply trying to protect its citizens. Let’s not lie to ourselves and pretend Japan doesn’t engage in this type of politics.

Look at this example:

https://www.voanews.com/amp/japan-imposes-microchip-export-ban-angering-china/7198608.html

All because the US told Japan to ban exports to China.

"Tadashi Sasaki, who heads the Shanghai office of Nagasaki, regretted China's total import ban, saying seafood is the prefecture's mainstay export item."

Well, Japan made its bed.

Wesley: "They eat bats, monkeys ,etc but won't eat seafood?"

I'm sure they eat seafood, and hence even in the article it says they are importing from different countries, they just have chosen not to eat seafood from a nation that has decided to dump radioactive waste into the ocean because they were dumb enough to build an NPP on a fault line (and lied about it).

Nobody has the right to complain if they do not know the numbers for the so-called contamination and compare them to other countries with their nuclear plant water dumping.

I will continue to eat all fruit, produce, and anything else from Fukushima and beyond.

Better to just ignore them, the CCP is just seeking attention hoping to worsen the image of other countries in favor of their own.

I still remember when they put Sweden on a do not travel to status because of a fabricated "scandal" about a couple of Chinese tourists being thrown out of a hotel after booking the wrong day and trying to sleep in the lobby. Writing articles about the police dropping them off at a cemetery, while the reality was that the train station name had the word cemetery in it. This was right after that Chinese human rights activist got the nobel peace price hehe.

Normal reaction from China. Shouldn't really be that surprising.

They often fry their food in oil that would be flushed down the sewage system, and they don't care about the radioactive contamination of the waters near their own country, even though it is worse than Japan's. In China, where air pollution, water pollution, and soil pollution are progressing, there is no point in embargoing exports.

Rich people in China have never bought Chinese groceries.

It is the wealthy people in China who are troubled by the inability to import Japanese seafood, which is safer than Chinese seafood.

I am looking forward to what will happen in China, where it is said that if there is a policy from above, there will be a countermeasure from below.

By the way, it has long been said that Chinese people eat things on the ground other than cars and things in flight other than airplanes.

As was the case with the current coronavirus, SARS, and Mars, it has been proven that viruses can easily spread across species barriers due to the nation's tendency to eat anything.

An arbitrary total import ban is part of the risk of doing business with the communist dictatorship. The Japanese fishing industry should have diversified their export markets.

China dumps 6 times more "nuclear tainted" water every year to the sea, only started the ban now ? LOL.

The average Chinese person is suffering from the CCP's unscientific purely political policy.

Outrageous behaviour by Commie China. Japanese seafood is 100% safe. Chinese produce, on the other hand, is largely contaminated.

the taste and texture of tuna from other countries are "totally different" from those of Japanese imports and it is "impossible to replace them," the dealer said.

Exactly right. Japanese tuna is completely different from tuna in other nations. There is no way Chinese consumers will accept non-Japanese seafood. The ban will be quietly lifted in one month - guaranteed.

If the Chinese Communist Party do not lift the ban, it is possible - hopefully - Chinese citizens will rise up.

Chinese surprised their totalitarian regime controls their lives? Exactly what kind of rock do they live under?

The ban is political. China pollutes more than most countries. The ban may be quietly lifted after a month or so, but it is unwise for traders in an ally of the US to be too reliant on trade with a country that the US wants to isolate from as much trade as it can. Japanese people are subject to the policies of the Japanese government, which (like all US allies) will have to do what the US tells it to. Post-globalisation, due diligence now requires an awareness of where the next trade blocks are going to be imposed. Politicians are now controlling trade, so be nimble, target profits where you can, and minimise your risk.

Who cares

@Speed

Gunma, Tochigi, Nagano and Saitama.

Does this sound like a country being logical?

Absolutely.

The ban also covers land food, such as Matsutake and Shiitake.

While Yoon administration refuses to impose the total import ban of Japanese seafood, major Korean supermarket chains are imposing their own ban on Japanese seafood to earn trust of consumers.

The Democratic party's campaign platform is the total ban on Japanese seafood import. So once the Democratic party retakes the presidency, they will sign into law the permanent ban on Japanese seafood import.

It has nothing to do with the release of radioactive water issues. China is doing this to support it’s Russian friend to hurt Japan economically. Putin and Yi are comrades in arms

As if China was an example of good politics to protect their citizens and Japan was not it. I see it more like a flex of power wich looks like have not any more way to than to break international business trust and confidence. Now they can all eat their own terrible taste food.

So is this ban going to stop Chinese fishing militia overfishing the waters off the coast of Japan?

rior to this blanket ban, China banned seafood from these 10 prefectures with those in bold being completely landlocked: Tokyo, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama. 

Does this sound like a country being logical?

Landlocked prefectures get their seafood and make their seafood products from coastal prefectures. Where they source is the factor in the decision.

The topic instead of being whether TEPCO’s treatment of contaminated water and its release into the ocean and whether fish that live in the water before the water is sufficiently diluted are safe for consumption, they want to distract you with China this and China that.

Japanese people are subject to the policies of the Japanese government, which (like all US allies) will have to do what the US tells it to. 

This and why the U.S. is silent on diluting radioactive contaminated water into the ocean.

@Speed

*Gunma**, Tochigi, Nagano and Saitama.*

Does this sound like a country being logical?

Absolutely.

The ban also covers land food, such as Matsutake and Shiitake.

@Speed

Fish meal, seaweed and others from the sea are used as fertilizers in Japan. So it’s more than just looking at a map and saying, no ocean no ban.

The world today is surrounded by Radioactive contamination, the amount of Tritium released into the ocean will make little difference, which already contains Tritium. This whole thing is a 95% political shouting match. And if you want to read about food that is really contaminated I suggest you read about the USA meat producers, they use so many chemicals, some toxic. They even use these chemicals on the farm produce.